Counting and Math with Pasta and Meatballs PLUS Coloring and Activity Fun
*** The Bella and Friends Learning Series! *** This fun coloring and "beginner math" activity book is "Pasta" and "Meatballs" themed and includes lots of FUN educational activities including:
- Learning Different Kinds of Pasta
- Counting Using Different Kinds of Pasta
- Counting Using Spaghetti and Meatballs
- Counting and Matching
- Beginner Math: Adding with Pasta
- Beginner Math: Subtracting with Pasta
- Count, Write and Compare Meatballs
- Practice Addition with Meatballs
- Practice Subtraction with Meatballs
- Seek 'n Find
- Spot the Difference
- Find the Pasta and Meatballs Maze
- Fun Coloring Pages Throughout!
This coloring/activity book is inspired by the rhyming book "Squishy Wishy Meatballs" which is part of the Bella and Mia Adventure Book Series, where the use of rhymes and recipes promotes fun activities with parent and child. Now it's time for more interactive and educational fun with counting and beginner Math using pasta and meatballs!
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Here are other books you might like in the Bella and Mia Adventure Series. These are fun rhyming stories! Learn about recipes and how it is to cook!
- Silly Willy Apple Cake
- Squishy Wishy Meatballs
- Snowflakes With Sugar
Editorial Reviews: Like its predecessor, ABC Letter Tracing PLUS Coloring And Activity Fun, Counting And Math With Pasta And Meatballs is an activity book created to accompany the Bella and Friends Learning Series. It has counting and traceable numbers for Pre-Kindergarten as well as addition and subtraction activities for Kindergarten through First Grade. Right off the mark, the text engages children by introducing them to the characters and inviting them to hunt for these characters throughout the book. This seek-and-find gives kids an entertaining task that requires focus and attention to detail; two precursors required of effective learners.
There is also multi-racial representation which allows young learners to identify a piece of themselves and their friends in the book while learning basic math concepts.
Besides math concepts, the book offers an assortment of fun exercises that children will enjoy like coloring pages, finding differences among a group of related items, a maze, and a list of various pasta. Two things worth mentioning: Each number is presented in numerical and written form. This is a wonderful strategy to introduce and reinforce site word recognition. There are directions for writing each number that include a visual prompt.
The math worksheets would make a wonderful supplement to a math center or a small learning group; these same activities would supplement at home learning and homework assignments.
For fun and educational activities, you can count on this workbook to deliver! As a former Pre- Kindergarten/ Kindergarten teacher, I highly recommend this book for anybody who teaches beginning math skills.
Ellwyn A.